On 14 July 2017 at 19:41, Sven Schreiber <svetosch@gmx.net> wrote:

Bottom line: Try ticking the box that says "activate the source sources" or similar, then sudo apt-get update, then sudo build-dep gretl. Hope this works.

Indeed, checking the box "Enable source code repositories" fixed the error: ran the rest of the installation code successfully, -gretl- 2017c-git now installed and running.

Thanks for all your help.

Clive Nicholas

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